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In spite of a lack of activity here I actually have been playing a lot of games lately! It’s refreshing and reinvigorating. Games that have actually hit the table in the past two months are as follows:

Yes I am finally playing a role playing game again. The group is 6 or 7 people. A pretty hefty turn out. We are meeting every other Sunday. Everyone has RPG experience. Everyone is old enough to be very familiar with Star Wars. It’s a blast! I absolutely love this system. I didn’t want to get into a complicated system. While this game has a learning curve it is all worth it. The dice mechanics alone are worth playing this game. I would replace skirmish gaming in the Star Wars for this game over the Star Wars Miniatures game. Easily.

I am currently playing a criminal explorer / scout of the Duros race. His mission in life is to find sellers of contraband, buyers of contraband and all the tricks he can find to avoid Imperial patrols. He trades in secrets.

Get this game. It’s a hell of a lot of fun.

Yes, I am finally playing Bolt Action. It only took one demo game to get me onboard with it. I love this game. It’s not the most realistic game out there. Just a warning. However it is a fun game with a historical theme that will get you figures back onto the table. It’s not hard to figure out and easy to teach. The army lists are pretty complete however they are missing KMT and Communist Chinese which I understand to a certain extent but I actually have Chinese troops in large number for WWII because of my Greater Pacific War project!

I played in a tournament last weekend and it was fun. I came in last place which given that I designed my army in the 20 minutes before the tournament began shows I wasn’t the most prepared person. I did come close to winning 1 game and I made my enemies pay in a couple of others…

Finally I am playing a lot of Descent 2nd Edition. I was really hesitant to like this game. I picked it up in 2013 only because I was able to get it for cheap money at a flea market, hardly touched. I was such a fan of the 1st edition. However, upon having played this a bit I’ve had to admit the original had some grievous sins and this new edition really corrects them very nicely. I’ve been picking up the lieutenant packs and I got most of the expansions after the first few successful games. Since I had every expansion from first edition I have tons of monsters that others don’t have. This allows me to really have fun with this game. I will probably create my own adventures to use some of the old tiles. The game plays at a much smaller and more intimate scale now so the old maps and adventures are out of the question. It might work but I am curious as to how well. You would not have a lot to convert.

Some of the biggest changes are that threat is directly related to plot cards that come with the lieutenant decks. They are entirely optional and the threat system is highly simplified now. The stats and powers are all simplified. By the time of the last expansion to Descent 1st Edition a character was rocking so many skills and talents and other options it was very hard to keep track of. There are still plenty of options, but the characters are simpler and the mechanics are simpler. The old system had 4 types of bonus dice. This one does not.

I think this game would appeal to anyone who likes dungeon crawls, wants games to last about 90 minutes per session and the campaign is fun and easy to follow. Yeah, the built in campaign system is awesome and while I loved the grittiness of Road to Legend, this system is much more suited to this game. You end up playing an Intro, 3 Act one battles, and Intermission battle, 3 Act two battles and a finale. No complicate map movement and no splitting heads over which secret location to go to next.

I’m no longer lugging books around if I can help it so I mainly just bring my laptop with me. I’ve got a crappy laptop bag that I am getting rid of and I’ve been looking for good looking backpack. While this Tumi is a bit pricey (click the photo to see it on Amazon – same with all the other photos above), it does have the style I am looking for. I may continue shopping. I need something that looks good and will be a good fit for my reasonably slim laptop, plus tablet and other nicknacks. I’ve been parking is a distant parking lot and walking so this makes more sense than a laptop bag. What do you, dear readers, suggest?

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